1. The purpose of an editorial/commentary is to explain, persuade, warn, criticize, entertain, praise or answer. What do you think is the purpose of Kalev Leetaru’s editorial? Explain your answer.

2. In this commentary, Mr. Leetaru makes the following points:

• "A small number of private companies now have the ultimate authority over what we are permitted to see and say online and can intervene at will in political speech, deeming any viewpoint they disagree with as 'unacceptable' and deleting all mentions of it."
• "Behind all these actions are armies of human and algorithmic moderators policing the global conversation, their instructions secret and their decisions final. When they make mistakes or their decisions generate controversy, companies are under no obligation to provide the public further detail about what specifically happened."
• "In the end, as a handful of social platforms increasingly become the de facto public squares through which societies debate their most important issues, the free flow of information that underpins democracy itself is at times blocked by unelected and unaccountable censors enforcing their own beliefs on all of society."

What should/can be done about this? Explain your answer.

3. Following Twitter’s censoring of Rep. Gaetz’s original pro-life post, Gaetz tweeted:

Wednesday: @Twitter censors our pro-life video as "sensitive content."

Today: @Twitter censors ANOTHER pro-life video our office created AND censors @TeamTrump's pro-life video.

This is unacceptable. We need answers.

Twitter user @SharinStone commented on the post:

"I have one....Go start your own social media platform."

a) This is a rude remark about a legitimate concern.  Why is this "suggestion" so ridiculous?
b) Obviously this twitter user is a progressive. Do you think most progressives agree with this user’s comment? Explain your answer.